Animations of measured middle-ear ossicle motion
in the gerbil

Introduction

This Web page provides animations of the measured data described in
‘Three-dimensional vibration of the malleus and incus in the living
gerbil’, Decraemer, de La Rochefoucauld, Funnell & Olson
(JARO, 2014,
doi:10.1007/s10162-014-0452-1).
Note that the stapes could not
be measured with the experimental approach used.

Animation programs
for datasets of 3 experimental animals, 9d8, 11d8 and 16d8, are made
available. The applications were written in MATLAB and can be run on
Windows or Linux computers using a freely available MATLAB Compiler
Runtime (MCR).

Downloads

The 64-bit GNU/Linux versions are available here. For the Microsoft
Windows versions please visit
BIMEF at the University of Antwerp.

Store the downloaded MCR_R2013b_glnxa64_installer.zip
file in an empty directory somewhere (it’s big, almost 500MB), unzip
it, and give the command ./install. Follow the
instructions, including acceptance of the licence agreement and
selection of an installation directory. Ignore the instructions about
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and XAPPLRESDIR
environment variables, they will be taken care of by the
run_run shell script.

Once the MCR has been installed, run the animation by
doing cd into the directory where
the run_run script was saved and giving the
command ./run_run_ani_11d8.sh mcr_dir/v82
where mcr_dir is the directory that was selected
when installing the MCR.

A window will appear offering various settings. Once
the start animation button is pressed, a window
will appear and disappear, and the steps of the animation will appear
slowly, one by one, before the final animation is displayed smoothly.
See Running an animation
for more detailed instructions.